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The first event of the ACM 2024-25 calendar was the
"Internship Insights Talk Series”. It was held on August
14th in a fully packed CSE Seminar Hall. The session
featured three distinguished speakers:
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<li>Alamelu Kannan (4th Year CSE, Summer Intern at Citi Bank)</li>
<li>Bhavana Anand (4th Year CSE, Research Intern at CMU)</li>
<li>Sanjjit S (4th Year CSE, Summer Intern at Fidelity Investments)</li>
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They shared their experiences and insights on securing
prestigious internships, offering valuable advice on resume
crafting, preparation for coding rounds, and navigating
in-person interviews. The event was attended by enthusiastic
2nd and 3rd year students, who have begun to gain clarity on
how to approach ongoing internship drives and the importance
of domain-oriented projects. The session provided a
structured roadmap for students, contributing significantly
to their academic and professional development. Overall, the
event was a resounding success, leaving the audience
well-prepared and motivated for their future endeavors.
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On August 29th, the SSN ACM student chapter hosted the "Tech Trivia Tussle", in the CSE Seminar Hall, an event designed to test speed, accuracy, and technical knowledge. Contestants competed in a series of challenges, with the fastest and most accurate team emerging as the winner. The event unfolded in two exciting rounds: <br> <br>
<b>Round 1: Quiz 📝 </b><br>
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<li>Teams faced 15 MCQ questions, and the top 15 teams advanced to the next round.</li>
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<b>Round 2: Connexions and Pictionary 🎨</b><br>
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<li>This round featured a fun mix of connections and Pictionary. What we anticipated to be challenging was met with impressive teamwork and quick thinking! Teams that crossed the threshold score moved on to the Finals.</li>
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<b>Finals: Problem Solving and Code Debugging 💻</b><br>
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<li>In the final round, teams tackled problem-solving tasks and debugging challenges. After coding, our volunteers validated the solutions by checking the number of test cases passed via LeetCode links.</li>
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We were thrilled to see such a strong turnout and the competitive spirit among all participants. The energy of the participants truly made this event special!
The results of the contest are: <br><br>
<b>🥇 1st Place: Team Guangdong Tigers</b> <br>
Abhishek K R (III Year IT), Pranav Moorthi (III Year CSE), Kaushik Murugesan (III Year EEE) <br><br>
<b>🥈 2nd Place</b> (Shared by two teams): <br>
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<li>Team V^3 - Vijay Karthick V (III Year CSE), Varsha Sekar G (III Year CSE), Yuktha (III Year CSE)</li>
<li>Team Ethachu Podu - Rohan R (III Year CSE), R Rohan (III Year CSE), Niranjan B (III Year CSE)</li>
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<b>🥉 3rd Place: Team Labrevent</b> <br>
Sundaresh Karthic Ganesan (III Year CSE), Tharunithi TJ (III Year CSE), Syed Tahir Ali (III Year CSE)
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🎉 A big congratulations to all the winners, and a heartfelt thank you to every participant for making this event such a wonderful success! We’re looking forward to seeing you at future events!
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On September 4th, the second edition of the "Internship Insights Talk Series," was held in the CSE Seminar Hall. The session featured our talented 4th-year CSE students:
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<li>Swetha J (4th Year CSE, Summer Intern at Barclays)</li>
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They shared their experiences and insights on securing prestigious internships, offering valuable advice on resume crafting, preparation for coding rounds, and navigating in-person interviews.
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The event saw enthusiastic participation from 2nd and 3rd year students, who gained valuable insights on navigating ongoing internship drives and the significance of domain-focused projects. The session offered a clear roadmap, greatly aiding their academic and professional growth. Overall, it was a highly successful event, leaving the audience motivated and better equipped for their future pursuits.
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The student chapters of SSN ACM & ACM-W jointly organised a session titled “Across the Internverse”, an insightful discussion where our peers shared their internship journeys and experiences. The session was held on 17th October 2024 in the CSE Seminar Hall. The speakers were students who have received internship opportunities from distinguished companies like Google, Motorq and D E Shaw:
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<li>Diya Seshan (III, CSE, SSN) - Intern at DE Shaw & Co</li>
<li>Priyadharshini Sridhar (III, BTech AI&DS, SNU) - Intern at Google</li>
<li>Joshua Bharathi (III, BTech AI&DS, SNU) - Intern at MotorQ</li>
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They shared their experiences and insights on securing prestigious internships, offering valuable advice on resume crafting, preparation for coding rounds, and navigating in-person interviews. <br>
The event was attended by enthusiastic 2nd and 3rd year students, who have begun to gain clarity on how to approach ongoing internship drives and the importance of domain-oriented projects. This session provided key takeaways on how to navigate the internship application process, prepare effectively, and stand out in the competitive recruitment landscape. Overall, the event was a resounding success, leaving the audience well-prepared and motivated for their future endeavors.
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On the evening of July 4th, the ACM Student Chapter at SSN
conducted a virtual workshop on the essentials for coding
interviews to spur up the preparation process for the
placement season. Vrishin Vigneshwar, an ACM-ICPC finalist
and the incoming SDE at Motorq, delivered a 2-hour
interactive session highlighting the essential preparation
steps to perform well in placements, with a detailed
emphasis on crucial competitive programming topics. This
chapter's first intra-college event of the academic year
witnessed an overwhelming turnout of around 400 students
with interactive Q&A throughout its duration. The first hour
of the workshop pivoted around the competitive programming
concepts that are frequently tested in programming
interviews. The speaker attributed different levels of
importance to each topic and categorized their relevance in
technical rounds of different tiers of recruiters. Among the
significant topics were dynamic programming, prefix sums,
two-pointer problems, trees and graphs to underscore a few.
The speaker shared his personal learning experience, links
to online resources and empirical opinions concerning each
topic to help the audience devise a more streamlined and
time-effective preparation plan. The latter part of the
session stressed the gravity of and the parts involved in
developing, putting together and publicizing a striking
personal profile. The speaker urged the students to build a
one-page resume, accentuating their most marketable skills
and work, to regularly update their LinkedIn profiles with
all their activities and accomplishments and maintain their
software projects on sharable code repositories like Github,
among other key steps. A few noteworthy projects with a good
visual appeal and indicative of sound proficiency in the
concerned tools and architectures will strengthen the
profiles. Finally, the speaker shared a few crucial pointers
about “the interview psyche” and recommended that students
take up mock interviews. He also laid out a detailed roadmap
for students in each year of study, indicating what aspect
of the preparation process they could focus on and how much
depth and time they should attribute to each, given the
amount of preparation time they have until the placements
commence. A consolidated e-document, outlining all the
topics discussed during the session and links to topic-wise
learning resources, personally curated by the speaker, were
handed out to the participants post the workshop. The event
received remarkably positive feedback from the participants,
thanking the speaker and the organizers for an effective and
time-pertinent workshop.
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The ACM Student Chapter hosted a talk on the 11th of July to
demystify career options after graduation and empower
students to make an informed pursuit of their goals. Satish
Palaniappan, Software Engineer at Microsoft and an alumnus
of SSN, addressed the students with an outline of the
various possibilities and his experiential wisdom. As a
working professional in the US, his discussions hinged
around career options in India and in the US which may,
however, be coarsely generalized to other countries as well.
The 2-hour long virtual session witnessed over 120
participants. The talk started with a brief overview of
Satish's journey from SSN to a master's at the John Hopkins
University and the eventual realization of his dream to be a
Machine Learning Engineer. It was through his first
internship program at NIT, Karnataka that he realized his
passion for Machine Learning. Intimidated by the extensive
technical know-how of his peers, he repulsed his urge to
give-up and worked persistently throughout the program to
prove himself. Building an OCR engine for Indus Scripts that
gathered media attention and his novel role as a software
engineer at Qube Cinemas in developing ML systems to improve
movie-watching experience were among his cherishable
experiences as a beginner. Speaking emphatically, he urged
students to seize every opportunity to work on their
interests and to never fear failure. The speaker then laid
out the typical career routes which could include pursuing a
job in India and possibly transferring to one in the US
later, a master's abroad right after graduation or working
for a year or two before starting master's, to mention a
few. He advised students to concretely realise their end
goal and suitably work towards it. The talk further
elaborated on working towards and putting together a
remarkable personal profile, shortlisting potential US
universities and applying to them. A good balance between
test scores, experience and writing samples, according to
the speaker, is crucial to being accepted. He then gave a
comprehensive outline of what each aspect of the application
entails. Notably, he emphasized on the importance of
composing an effective Statement of Purpose which must
ideally be personalized to suit each university and markedly
demonstrate one's reason for choosing their school. Good
projects and internships, exhibiting one's depth of research
and hard work will register a positive impact on the
experience aspect and the application as a whole, he added.
In the latter parts of the talk, the speaker brought out
marked differences in the job search process between India
and the US. While every Indian institute boasts and asserts
its fame and reputation through its campus placement
statistics, on the flip side, this is practically an alien
concept in US universities. While online application portals
are the conventional method to apply to firms, landing job
interviews through referrals and peer networking is
remarkably more effective. Preparing and performing well in
the interviews is the next most critical step and the
speaker narrated his interview experience at Amazon and
Microsoft whilst describing the typical assessment
techniques. An eminent piece of advice in the context of job
seeking, often highlighted by experts as did the speaker, is
to prepare a fine, structured one-page resume and to be
vocal during interviews. The talk concluded with the speaker
describing his present work-life balance and nature of work
and addressing participant queries. The event received an
overall positive feedback from the participants.
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On July 15th, the ACM Student Chapter of SSN invited Suresh
Kumar G, the CEO of MacApStudio and Pepul to address the
students. The speaker shared his journey in establishing
MacAppStudio and pointed out the necessary qualities and
expertise to build a startup. Followed by an extensive Q&A,
this event was attended by an audience of over 200. The
speaker shared his truly inspiring personal journey of
struggle, perseverance, and eventual success in the first
hour. After engineering, he joined a high-rewarding job in
the US. Later with hard work and determination, he and his
friend won Intel's Worldwide Developer challenge and came
first among 18000 Developers from top universities.
Subsequently, they won many such awards and became the
Youngest and First in Asia to be Intel BlackBelts.Both of
them left the cushy jobs and started MacAppStudio in
Chennai, they faced numerous hurdles and pitfalls and
struggled for three years. Their faith in the path chosen
and their value system transformed MacAppStudio into a
Multi-Billion dollar company. Their distinctive hiring
without resume process is intended to break stereotypes
about Developers. They rigorously train talented recruits
and produce hardworking and highly skilled employees. In the
latter part, the speaker shared some nuggets of wisdom he
follows using many relatable anecdotes. The most important
one being the power of belief, if a person believes in
themselves then anything can be accomplished. He motivated
the audience to decide on a final objective and work towards
that in small incremental goals. Ignore the naysayers and
have good intentions and thoughts. Always be ready for
failure and put it in perspective. Have big dreams, and
consistently work hard. Do not compare yourself with others,
have gratitude, and don't forget your origins. Contribute
positively to society to give meaning to your life. Finally,
there was a comprehensive Q&A with over 25 questions. He
explained in detail the vision of MacAppStudio to touch and
improve the lives of billions of people. How his
extracurricular work in design and animation helped his
career. He encouraged every fresher to give innovative
solutions to the problems in their company. Society in
general advocates to "Play it Safe" because of a fear of
failure, but if the entrepreneur is confident about taking
risks and the idea behind the startup solves a relevant
problem then success is assured. With regards to funding,
the Bootstrap model is preferred by the speaker because the
entrepreneur isn't answerable to anyone. This enabled them
to create a people-first business model which rewards,
recognition and respects the employees. A unique example of
this is when they hired an employee based on his ability to
tend to plants and trained him in project management to take
care of people. When asked about the secret of their success
he humbly replied pure intentions, support system, and hard
work. He reiterated that being passionate about the work a
person does will keep them motivated and avoid burnout. The
speaker's down-to-earth nature with practical inputs and
relatable way of addressing the audience were
thought-provoking and positively influenced them to dream
bigger and work to achieve their ambitions. The event
received overwhelmingly positive feedback.
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The ACM Student Chapter conducted an online webinar where
Mr. Balaji Nagaraj Kumar, Product Manager at Volvo Cars,
Sweden and the Founder and CEO of DataTor Labs, Sweden, was
invited to be the guest speaker. As a successful engineer
with immense industrial experience and academic training
from across 5 countries in a range of fields spanning across
technical sciences and business management, he addressed the
participants with his idea and approach to building a
successful career path. The 2-hour long virtual session
witnessed over 90 participants.<br /><br />
To give the audience a background of his life, the speaker
began with a brief overview of his professional journey
across the world . As a young physics enthusiast, Mr. Balaji
chose to pursue his engineering bachelors in electrical
engineering. After working for 2 years at MuSigma and Ford
Motors, he went on to pursue his masters in a prestigious
fully-funded cross-university program in Europe. This
markedly opened up an array of opportunities for him, as he
developed a global academic and work exposure, experiencing
diverse cultures and gathering exposure along the way. “Play
to your strengths” and “adapt to the world around you” were
his words of wisdom at the end of this enthralling
narrative.
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According to the speaker, an engineering course lays the
foundation for thinking logically in a technical context. He
regarded critical thinking, implementation thinking,
conceptual thinking, innovation thinking and intuitive
thinking as the fundamental skills an engineer must look to
hone. With that piece of advice, he brought out the
differences between working in large corporate organizations
and embarking on startups. As a global graduate recruit at
Volvo, he described his experience working on real-world
systems as part of a global team. He spotlighted the
importance of effective communication skills and a strong
technical know-how to work among the experts in the
corporate world. Being an entrepreneur, on the other hand,
entails a lot of perseverance and an immense cross-domain
knowledge in combination with a strong business perspective.
After enduring four unsuccessful startups at different
points in his career, Mr. Balaji is now the founder of
DataTor Labs, a data-privacy firm based out of Sweden.
Pointing out what went wrong in each of his earlier
endeavors, he stressed on the need to be prepared to face
and learn from failures. <br /><br />
Finally, the speaker presented an aggregation of his
industrial wisdom and round-the-world exposure in the form
of a “framework” to being a successful engineer and a social
human being as a whole, called “You Design U”. It urges one
to understand the world around oneself and work coherently
with the others. It also describes a structured way to deal
with and solve problems along the way to carving a path to
and eventually realizing one's dream and destiny.
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Throughout this engaging session, Mr. Balaji emphasized on
the importance of learning at every stage of life, always
keeping the “big-picture” in mind and preparing for and
persevering through the inevitable downs on the way to
achieving one's goals. The webinar concluded with a Q&A
session with the speaker
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October 30th, 2023 marked the SSN ACM Student Chapter
orientation meeting, the official beginning of the Student
Chapter of 2023. Assembled on the vibrant evening, the
team's diverse members shared a common zeal for technology.
Leaders elucidated the mission and introduced their teams.
<br /><br />
Sanjjit and Jeevesh started off the meet with a brief
introduction of what ACM is and what it does. This was
followed by Sarika and Gayathri who spoke about the
educational purposes, scientific purposes and goals of this
particular chapter in SSN. Following this, was the
introduction of each team, taken up by the head or deputy
heads of each vertical. Sarath and Nila then proceeded to
throw some light upon previous events and outreach programs
conducted by the SSN ACM Student Chapter.
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There were 63 students present in the call from across all
departments. They inquired about multiple aspects of the
club. It was clear to see that the club and its activities,
both future and prior, had intrigued them, and the club
hoped to see many of those faces in the future events. The
students had the opportunity to network with other members
of the Computer Science Department, allowing them to meet
new people.
<br /><br />
Haricharan introduced the ACM membership and its benefits,
some of which are networking and volunteering opportunities.
He began by first explaining the process to obtain the
membership: by joining the annual membership drive and
keeping up with the social media handles of the club for any
new updates. The members were then encouraged to contribute
to the student chapter by actively engaging in various
activities like volunteering, competitions and hackathons.
<br /><br />
Finally, the planned events of this year were discussed.
Hour of Code, the first event of this new season of SSN ACM
was particularly highlighted. The ideas for this event were
discussed, along with a brief overview of the event plan.
The club looks forward to the new events of the year and is
absolutely thrilled for a new season of SSN ACM Student
Chapter. They welcome everyone to join aboard this journey!
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The first workshop, Introduction to UNIX commands, was
conducted by the SSN-ACM student chapter as a
beginner-oriented course to help students unlock the full
potential of the dynamic UNIX command line interface
conducted by two fourth-year students, Akil Karthikeyan and
Vaishnave J P. The event was overseen by the Faculty
coordinator Dr. Sujaudeen N with the help of student
coordinators Sarath Donepudi and Sarika Esackimuthu.
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The first day revolved around basic UNIX commands such as
creating, navigating and deleting directories. It was
followed by a detailed explanation of file permissions and
an understanding of the various types of ownerships. The
participants worked on managing and changing these
permissions to gain a better grasp of its nuances. Following
this, the concepts of piping and sorting were introduced in
which participants learnt how to establish temporary
connections between commands and manipulate the types of
sorting. The final concept for Day 1 was pattern matching
and searching using Regex and Grep. The participants were
guided on the various symbols and commands used to match
characters effectively.
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The second day of the workshop delved deeper into the
interface and explored concepts like alternation, grouping
and quantifiers that add more functionality to the
interface. The hands-on experience was provided on grouping
using the (?) quantifier and its capabilities. This was
followed by an introduction to awk, one of the most
prominent text-processing utilities used in UNIX. The
participants learned how to read commands from a text file
and print the contents in various formats. Side by side the
participants coded the awk commands and implemented line
counting and arrays as well as patterns. The workshop
concluded with a brief explanation of how awk can be used
for built-in variables, control flow statements, looping
constructs and built-in functions.
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All participants left the session satisfied and eager to
implement all that they had learned to enhance their coding
prowess and make the best use of the UNIX command line
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The "Hour of Code" online event, which commenced on December
6th, 2023 at 1:30 PM, was an exploration of creativity in
the realm of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Hosted virtually,
the event had 36 enthusiastic participants, who were
actively engaged in the challenges. In his opening address,
Jeevesh Krishna, head of ACM SSN, extended a warm welcome to
the participants, and provided a comprehensive overview of
the event's objectives and emphasizing the significance of
creativity in the field of AI.
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<h4><strong>1. AI Trivia Challenge</strong></h4>
<h5>Round 1 - Crossword Puzzle</h5>
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The first challenge of the day was the AI Trivia Challenge,
and the first round was a crossword puzzle. Participants
were presented with hints to fill in the crossword, testing
their knowledge and creativity in AI. Participants fervently
submitted their answers within the allotted 10 minutes via
the chat box.
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<h5>Round 2 - AI Knowledge Quiz</h5>
<p>
Following the crossword puzzle, the second round involved an
AI Knowledge Quiz. This segment tested participants'
awareness of the evolving landscape of AI, spanning the
progress made in recent years. Vaishnavi T expertly led both
rounds, guiding participants through a series of questions
that sparked excitement and yielded a plethora of responses.
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<h4><strong>2. AI Image Generation</strong></h4>
<p>
Rakshith took charge of leading the AI Image Generation
Challenge, providing each team with the second challenge
instructions. To facilitate focused work, Vaishnavi
efficiently organized breakout rooms for each team, ensuring
a seamless and collaborative environment. Each team was
presented with a specific image and tasked with generating
the closest possible approximation using text prompts.
Leveraging tools like NVIDIA Playground, participants were
challenged to translate textual descriptions into visual
representations within a time limit of 30 minutes. The
culmination of the challenge revealed a remarkable display
of creativity, with each team presenting images that closely
matched the given prompts.
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<h4><strong>3. Semantle</strong></h4>
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The event unfolded with the third challenge, the Semantic
Challenge. Gayathri provided insightful instructions, while
the coordination efforts of Hishitha and Samyuktaa ensured a
smooth and engaging experience for the participants.
Participants transitioned into their respective breakout
rooms, where they were tasked with guessing words and
determining their semantic similarity to a secret word. The
interactive nature of this challenge encouraged participants
to work collaboratively. The challenge extended beyond word
recognition, evolving into an engaging riddle-solving
activity.
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<h4><strong>4. Website Replication Challenge</strong></h4>
<p>
"Hour of Code" reached its crescendo with the fourth and
final challenge - the Website Replication Challenge. This
challenge provided participants with an opportunity to apply
their skills in handling the Large Language Models blend
with their coding skills and creativity by replicating a
website. Yashasvee orchestrated the challenge by offering
clear instructions and providing participants with essential
website images and requirements. This event spanned 45
minutes, during which participants were tasked with
replicating a given website. The challenge featured an
interactive query session facilitated through the chat box.
Participants were encouraged to seek clarification and
guidance, fostering a collaborative learning environment.
Yashasvee's responsiveness to participant queries ensured a
supportive atmosphere throughout the challenge.
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<h4><strong>Conclusion</strong></h4>
<p>
Sanjjit S, in a heartfelt vote of thanks, acknowledged the
participants for their active involvement and dedication
throughout the event. Sanjjit also announced that the
winners of the various challenges would be duly recognized,
adding an element of anticipation to the event's closure.
The Hour of Code had thus come to a close as a well-received
and enjoyable experience for all.
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